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SubjectRe: swappiness=0 makes software suspend fail.
Andrew Morton wrote:
> Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz> wrote:
>
>>Right solution is to make sure that shrink_all_memory() works, no
>> matter how swappiness is set.
>
>
> off-by-one in balance_pgdat() was the main problem.
>

I think it might be intentional, because 1/2 + 1/4 + ... + 1/4096 ~ 1.

If so, it instead needs fixing in try_to_free_pages, and a comment.
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